The incomes of farmers vary significantly from year to year as a result of fluctuations in commodity prices, weather and other factors beyond their control. The highly variable nature of farming incomes has led the New ...

This paper reports on a survey into the use made of transport by New Zealand farmers. The survey has been carried out as a preliminary step in a research programme of the Agricultural Economics Research Unit aimed at ...

Since 1968 agricultural production in New Zealand has been virtually stagnant. In 1975 studies were undertaken at the Agricultural Economics Research Unit to investigate some of the main causes of the fall off in the rate ...

This study is concerned with the problem of providing farm advisory services to New Zealand farmers. Its aim is to determine a number of acceptable sets of locations for farm advisory officers, who are employed by the ...

The objective of this survey was to provide the New Zealand Vegetable and Produce Growers' Federation and individual growers with data and trends on costs and returns for process peas and beans; to provide a basis for pre- ...

This discussion is about the goals and aspirations that the citizenry of Christchurch should adopt in planning the future development of their city. It leaves aside any consideration of the likely success or failure in ...

A number of service facility location problems are concerned with providing urban emergency services such as ambulances, fire and police. These problems differ from other service location problems such as the location of ...